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Thomas Friedman
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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
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Saint Louis Park
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Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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Arnold Schwarzenegger said it best: Your son is sick. Ninety-eight doctors give you one diagnosis, two doctors give you another. Who are you going to go with? Well, why would it be the conservative position to go with the two? That's not conservative, that's crazy.
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In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.
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The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.
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Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.
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There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.
Thomas Friedman
Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.
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The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.
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Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.
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What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.
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Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.
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There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.
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We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
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The reason that we are becoming less equal is because of the greater requirements, secure requirements, for a good job. This goes back to the '80s basically, this started changing as globalization and the IT revolution merged, and each started to drive the other.
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What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
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If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.
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You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.
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McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.
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Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.
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In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.
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Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.
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